1libiptcdata
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4    David Moore <dcm@acm.org>
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7DESCRIPTION
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10libiptcdata is a library for manipulating the International Press
11Telecommunications Council (IPTC) metadata stored within multimedia
12files such as images.  The library provides routines for parsing,
13viewing, modifying, and saving this metadata.  The library is licensed
14under the GNU Library General Public License (GNU LGPL).
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16The library implements the standard described at http://www.iptc.org/IIM
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18The code itself was inspired by the libexif library:
19http://sourceforge.net/projects/libexif, written by Lutz Müller.
20Together, libexif and libiptcdata provide a complete metadata
21solution for image files.
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23LIMITATIONS
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26The current implementation of libiptcdata only supports extracting IPTC
27data from JPEG files (although it can decode raw IPTC data from any
28source as long as your application provides the data directly).  The
29format for storing IPTC in JPEG files is a de-facto standard developed
30by Adobe.
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